HOW SOCIAL

MEDIA CHANGED
THE WORLD?
A Purposive Communication Project
INTRODUCTION
The Birth of the Internet

• The initial idea of the Internet is credited to Leonard Kleinrock

after he published his first thesis paper entitled "Information
Flow in Large Communication Nets" on 31 May 1961.
• During its transitional period from 1961 to 1988, the Internet
Service Provider (ISP) is invented in 1989.
• In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee invented the hypertext mark-up
language (HTML).
• The first website was info.cern.ch, created by Lee in 6 August
1991. On the same day, the world wide web (www) was
invented.
The Birth of Social
Media

• The first social media website

was SixDegrees.com, a social
networking website. It was
launched in 1997 and ended in
2001.
• 2 years later, MySpace.com was
established, specifically on 1
August 2003. It’s also a social
networking website until it was
surpassed by Mark Zuckerberg’s
FaceBook.com.
• In 4 February 2004, a Harvard
University student named Mark
Zuckerberg founded Facebook. It
was originally called FaceMash,
also developed by him, back in
July 2003.
• In 14 February 2005, YouTube
was established. It was created
by three former PayPal
employees Chad Hurley, Steve
Chen, and Jawed Karim. The
website was originally supposed
to be a dating website, but
because of the first video Me at
the Zoo (uploaded originally on
23 April 2005), it launched
officially in December 2005.
Google acquired YouTube in
November 2006.
• On 21 March 2006, Twitter was established. Created by Jack Dorsey,
Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams; it was officially launched in
15 July 2006.
• On 6 October 2010, Kevin Systrom created Instagram. Owned by
Facebook, it is the most popular photo-sharing website in social
media. Way too popular than Flickr (2004) and Tumblr (2007).
What is/are the most popular Social Media Website(s)?

• The most popular websites globally are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

and YouTube.
• According to Pew Research Center (2018), these are the percentages
of U.S. adults that use social media sites online or on mobile:
Number of American Users in Social Media Networking
YouTube: 73% Websites (Pew Research Center, 2018)
Facebook: 68% Snapchat

Instagram: 35% 11% Twitter

9% Youtube
28%
Pinterest: 29% Pinterest
11%
Snapchat: 27%
LinkedIn: 25% Instagram
14% Facebook
27%
Twitter: 24%
ADVANTAGES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
• The biggest advantage of social media is the power to connect
people. It has become a popular way for family and friends who live
far away from one another (sometimes internationally) to keep up
with what is going on in each other’s lives, without the expensive cost
of long-distance calling.
• Aside from family and friends, social media is also used academically
and professionally.
• Social media can also help join fandoms and clubs based on his/her
talents, interests and passions.
DISADVANTAGES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
• Social media can be fun, but it also has a dark side. Showing his/her
full information (e.g. exact address, family, etc.) can cause harm.
• Cyberbullying (e.g. hate art, dank memes, verbal abuse (especially
profanity), etc.) is also common in social media, which may result in
depression or physical abuse.
• Discrimination is also common in social media.
HOW DOES SOCIAL MEDIA CHANGED
THE WORLD?
• Because of the birth of the Internet in the 1990s, everything has
become faster.
• Communication via Internet (e.g. Skype, Facebook, Twitter) makes
people-to-people connection faster than just simply calling thru
telephone (especially when connecting internationally).
• Online sharing through social media has became common today. It
makes written communication faster than just sending mail to the
post office.
• Wireless phones became common today, making payphones
obsolete.
CONCLUSION
• In conclusion, social media has changed the world. It makes
connections between family and friends faster.
• Social media can be a friend or a foe. As a foe, a user can be affected
by negative comments and/or influence, leading his/her to
depression.
• It is very important to stay vigilant in social media.
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